Brassica bed - In pictures: Bring on the brassicas

The brassica bed at Rousham House with Kale Cavalo Nero

Rousham is the landscape designer’s landscape garden, a perfect slice of
18th-century arcadia, where William Kent transported Italian ideas of beauty
to Oxfordshire. That’s what draws most visitors to this historic site that
slopes down to the River Cherwell.

But Rousham also has a walled garden, full of pear, plum and apple trees and
quintessential English herbaceous borders, with one of the grandest and most
splendid dahlia beds I’ve ever seen, running all the way along a 100ft
south-facing wall.